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Wrong has covered Africa for the Financial Times and other news organizations since the 1990s. As with her 2001 book, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, a well-received account of the calamitous rule of Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, It's Our Turn to Eat - the title refers to the assumption in Kenya that winning elections confers a license to steal - is richly reported and reads, at times, like a thriller. Wrong's sketches of Githongo's sleuthing - when a hidden recording device starts playing back while he is still in the company of two top officials...
...year in particular, the industry is banking on the absence of logic. Scan a list of 2009's major releases and you'll discover almost as many reissues - repackaged classics with improved sound or added tracks - as originals. You may not be tempted by Lenny Kravitz's Let Love Rule 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition or Average White Band's re-pressed Cut the Cake - generally you have to want something once before wanting it twice. But in May, Universal will begin reissuing the Rolling Stones' 14 most recent albums, while in September, EMI and Apple Corps will reissue...
...More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation By James Carville Simon & Schuster; 209 pages...
...verbal jabs, the umpires suffered the majority of Dartmouth’s ire.A tight strike zone from home plate umpire Brian Troupe gave both sides trouble, but the crowd erupted when Troupe refused to grant Big Green center fielder Brett Gardner first base after being hit by a pitch, ruling that the batter had failed to make an effort to get out of the way. Although disgruntled fans had a few choice words for the men in blue, Walsh implied that Dartmouth’s supporters may have suffered from selective memory—sophomore catcher Tyler Albright received...
...woman concept of matrimony. He sent a letter last fall to Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, praising Mormon support for Prop 8, the ballot-initiative in California that made gay marriage unconstitutional. That state's Supreme Court is expected to rule on the validity of the amendment soon...